On transition from NEOLIBERALISM to NEOMEDIEVALISM — and why this matters

Author

Greg is a foresight consultant, philosopher, political scientist and social scientist; he holds a PhD from Jagiellonian University (philosophy) with a focus on comparative civilizations and organizational complexity; he is also a graduate of London School of Economics (philosophy of science, MSc.), Maastricht University (social sciences, MA.), Jagiellonian University (philosophy, MA.) and Tischner European University (international relations, BA.). He also attended postgraduate courses at Notre Dame University (USA).

He authored or co-authored three books, as well as dozens academic articles and essays. Between 2011 and 2016 he authored more than 250 publications on international affairs and popular science in Wprost weekly magazine – the most influential weekly magazine in Poland at the time. He is also a TEDx speaker, co-founder of Institute of Research on Civilizations in Krakow and author of reports in the projects financed by the European Commission (cultural mediation, migration) and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (collective identity, geopolitics). In 2008 he served as international observer at United Nations Commission on Social Development in New York. Alumnus of Goodenough College (London).

In 2016, together with Piotr Arak he created State Power Index, the first index of state power that measures both soft power and hard power between 1991 and 2016. The index grasps national capabilties of all coutries in the world in 7 dimensions as diverse as economics, culture, diplomacy, militarisation or geography. He is currently conducting research in the field of comparative civilizations theory.

If you have a valuable contribution related to neomedievalism in English, please send it to greglewicki [at] alumni.lse.ac.uk.